History Characters / AndThenThereWereNone

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Roland Young (1945), Stanley Holloway (1965), Gert Froebe (1974), Aleksei Zharkov (1987), Warren Berlinger (1989), Creator/BurnGorman (2015)

* AntiVillain: Wargrave is, by his own admission, a complete and utter maniac, but he is also a deeply moral man who chooses to use his final days ending the lives of criminals.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Richard Haydn and Queenie Leonard (1945), Mario Adorf and Marianne Hoppe (1965, as Josef and Elsa Grohmann), Alberto De Mendoza and Maria Rohm (1974, as Otto and Elsa Martino), Aleksei Zolotnitsky and Irina Tereshchenko (1987), Paul L. Smith and Moira Lister (1989, as Elmo and Edna Mae Rodgers), Creator/NoahTaylor and Anna Maxwell Martin (2015)

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Legge and Maine do a diligent job of being fair-minded as they discuss the ten guests. They don't leap to judgments about whether Owen's claims are all true and are also willing to acknowledge and consider the misdeeds of public servants like Wargrave and Blore - and in Blore's case, are heavily critical of him and don't hold back on him because he was a police officer like both of them. Most notably, they seem to appreciate how improper Justice Wargrave's summation of the Sefton trial seemed, even though it later transpired that Sefton was guilty.

* AndIMustScream: Wargrave explains that he suffered this trope due to his two biggest personality traits. On the one hand, he was ''obsessed'' with committing a murder and having power over life and death, but on the other, his impossibly strong moral code and belief that only the guilty should be punished left him unable to act on that obsession. He remarks that the whole reason he became a judge was to get relief by sentencing criminals to hang, but it wasn't enough--he was agonizingly trapped between two impulses and couldn't do anything about it until he hit upon his scheme.

* BornLucky: In the book. Once you know the full extent of [[GambitRoulette his plans]] and the circumstances around them, you realize that he was very lucky that the things turned out the way they did. One of the biggest instances would be the fact that the bad weather prevented Narracott from coming back before it was too late. He did use the excuse that it was a social "experiment" to dissuade the villagers from coming. But we later learn that Fred Narracott wanted to bypass these orders as soon as he saw the first distress calls, but couldn't because of the storm. Had he been able to sail, most of the murders could have been prevented.

* GambitRoulette: Works ''ridiculously'' well in the book, but fails in the Hollywood adaptations.

* MeaningfulName: A surname composed of "war" and "grave" really suits a HangingJudge. It still applies with the AdaptationNameChange, since the surname is changed to Cannon (or Quinncannon), which is very similar to "canon" (or "Queen's canon"). His first. And is Lawrence. Appropriate, given that he is a judge operating by the law for justice.

* MeaningfulName: A surname composed of "war" and "grave" really suits a HangingJudge. It still applies with the AdaptationNameChange, since the surname is changed to Cannon (or Quinncannon), which is very similar to "canon" (or "Queen's canon").

* WhenItAllBegan: In the epliogue, the killer states that they were first inspired following a discussion with the GP (family doctor) of the employer of Mr & Mrs Rodgers. The GP stated that he was certain that the Rodgerses had deliberately killed their employer by witholding medication, but knew that there was no way of proving this, and wondered to the killer about how many other similar cases existed, where people had committed murders in ways that could never be proven.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Legge and Maine do a diligent job of being fair-minded as they discuss the ten guests. They don't leap to judgments about whether Owen's claims are all true and are also willing to acknowledge and consider the misdeeds of public servants like Wargrave and Blore. Most notably, they seem to appreciate how improper Justice Wargrave's summation of the Sefton trial seemed, even though it later transpired that Sefton was guilty.

* {{Yandere}}: In the book, [[spoiler:turns out that she did cause Cyril Hamilton's death so his uncle Hugo, who was her lover, could inherit the child's estate]]. Downplayed in the Russian film adaptation, where a single flashback shows her [[spoiler:coldly watching Cyril runs into the sea to his death after Hugo explains why he can't marry her.]]

* CuteAndPsycho: A gentle, sweet, naive girl who [[spoiler:caused the death of her lover's nephew, who was her charge, by letting him drown in the sea so her lover could inherit the family state and marry her. She only gets crazier as the story goes on.]]

* TheScapegoat: Downplayed, as Lomabrd is guilty (something he himself freely admits), but he mentions in passing that there were two other men with him who also stole the food and abandoned the Africans (with it being unclear if they were just as culpable as Lombard, less culpable or even guiltier than he was), who avoid U.N. Owen's radar, unlike Lombard himself.

* ThanatosGambit: His very last victim...is himself, since he's fatally ill and wants to leave the world of the living right after the last victim dies.

The butler and maid who accomodate the other guests. They are accused of causing the death of their former employer, a rich spinster named Jennifer Brady, by withholding a vital drug so that she would die and they could inherit her money.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: He's terminally ill and decides to leave the world taking some unpunished criminals with him.

* MouthOfSauron: Morris deals with people on behalf of his client due to Mr. Owen being an InventedIndividual whose creator can't afford to let anyone know who [[spoiler:he]] is.

* KickTheDog: He's not the only unrepentant one on the island, but one of his viewpoint passages shows him outright ''gleefully'' reminiscing about turning the jury against Seton. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out that Seton really ''did'' do it, making it a KickTheSonOfABitch]].

Tropes related to the killer's identity should be listed under their separate folder so as to avoid spoiling TheReveal.

* {{Yandere}}: In the book, [[spoiler:turns out that she did cause Cyril Hamilton's death so his uncle Hugo, who was her lover, could inherit the child's estate]]. Not quite ''as'' much in the Russian film adaptation, but a single flashback showing her [[spoiler:coldly watching Cyril die after Hugo explains why he can't marry her]] is all it takes to seal it.

* SpottingTheThread: In the BBC adaptation, he states that [[spoiler: he wasn't sure Vera was guilty until he heard her speak at the funeral, professing her guilt over not being able to catch up with Cyril. He then confronts Vera with the knowledge that Cyril was sickly with weak lungs and couldn't have possibly outrun or outswum Vera, who is still in her prime. It's not enough to prove that Vera committed murder, but it's enough for him to break up with her.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the game, [[spoiler:''he'' murdered Cyril and blamed Vera for it]].

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